After making my decision to purchase a J3 ASAP for a short while now, I seem to have noticed it's like one of the worst players regarding out of the box failure rate. Is this the case, or is it just the congregation of people I see complaining on forums will obviously be customers with faulty units, and not ones with functional units? LOL.

Haha thanks ^^! That's good to know. Would you happen to remember your approximate time of purchase? So hopefully if there ever was/were bad batches, maybe enough time has passed for all of them to be already distributed/sent back to Cowon.

After making my decision to purchase a J3 ASAP for a short while now, I seem to have noticed it's like one of the worst players regarding out of the box failure rate. Is this the case, or is it just the congregation of people I see complaining on forums will obviously be customers with faulty units, and not ones with functional units? LOL.

Thanks,
-justin

I think you pegged it. Most people who have a functioning unit don't post. People who have problems complain loudly.

My 16GB unit straight out of the box had no problems. No short battery life either. Purchased end of May.